Quote Originally Posted by iloveboost
I understand that, Windsor. You actually proved my point. Some RWD cars don't get traction because their back tires aren't on the ground, yet FWD or AWD cars don't have that problem, yet they don't get to use wheelie bars because they're (wheelie bars) not used on the streets. Last I checked, neither were slicks.

I drive a FWD car, so I know about traction (even though I don't have any), but if this race is to be 'fair', don't restrict other vehicles to accomidate just us FWD cars.

For it to be "fair"; if a FWD can use slicks, then so can everyone else. They're basically giving FWD cars the crutch here, and that is by no means fair.

Basically, my point being, don't claim to try to make it a fair playing ground for all cars when you make rules to benefit one certain type of car, which is FWD in this instance. This is all.
Sorry I missed this sooner.

I'm assuming this question is directed at the Showdown class? The idea is to provide fairly similar 60 foot times. A previous poster mentioned FWD on slicks (in good conditions) can cut a 1.6 60 foot, which is what an AWD can do on drag radials, and a RWD can do on DOT approved (there are a lot of impacts to this we know, but generally speaking from results of the events we've collected, then generally average out). So the "fair" part is that you limit everyone to a tire that produces similar results. It's a different type of fair, but considering that we deal with primarily sportsman racers, we are limited in the areas we can restrict. People are not going to greatly modify their setups for our event. Nor do we expect them to.

So if your thinking fair means if we allow one group to run one thing, the others should too. Then your right, no it's not fair. But our intention wasn't to be fair that way. Our intention was to be fair but ensuring that one group wouldn't have a significant advantage over the other, which is why we choose the types of tires we did.

All of this is always open to discussion. So whether you agree with us or not, we do take note of peoples suggestions, and the results. We didn't greatly modify our classes from Spring to Fall to try to help things run smoothly. However, the classes are wiped clean for 06. We'll definitely look at all of these, the results. I just want to be sure everyone knows that we actually try to pay attention to as many comments as possible. We put this event on for everyone who comes, so your input matters. We change everything and unless we go to bracket racing, nothing will be completely fair. As you can see, there are even different ideas of what fair itself means. Hope this helps at least explain the thought process. Your comment suggestion is noted.